Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics

The debate kicked off following a Politico article titled, I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat. The article led to widespread condemnation of the kind of rhetoric gripping factions of the MAGA world, but was also roundly dismissed by many, like Vice President JD Vance, who urged their supporters to focus their ire on the left and support a call for having no enemies on the right.

Bad Bunny represents none of these values; his drag performances and style are the opposite of what families expect on football's biggest stage. Again, George Strait embodies unity, tradition, and the timeless American music that truly deserves the 2026 Super Bowl spotlight.

Today's extremist styles are more diverse and more subtle. Beyond T-shirts that advertise blatant racism, polo shirts with coded symbols create a shared in-group identity and signal support of violence to other believers. Tradwife-style prairie dresses and beauty regimens promote conservative visions of family. Clothing is a powerful tool to spread fascist ideas to promote authoritarianism and recruit new members to this cause.

On the last day of the trial, prosecutor Jo Morris said the counter-terrorism powers used by police to stop Robinson exist to allow for intelligence gathering and that police had a reasonable suspicion that he still had links to far-right activists, even after the disbandment of the English Defence League (EDL). Although his membership of the EDL has come to an end, his views have not gone away.

The anti-woke campaigner brought legal action against Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, after the company's artificial intelligence chatbot falsely claimed he took part in the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021, seeking $5 million (£3.75 million) in damages. In August, as part of the settlement, Starbuck was appointed to advise Meta on how to prevent political bias in its AI, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Nigel Farage portrays his Reform UK party as a unique phenomenon that has burst on to the global stage, its meteoric rise an exceptional epochal event. But this week, in every one of Europe's major countries and from India and Thailand to the US and Argentina, hard-right, anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties like his are also ahead in the opinion polls. In last Saturday's Czech elections, the rightwing, pro-Putin populist Andrej Babis toppled prime minister Petr Fiala.

Launched in 2024, the non-denominational evangelical group describes itself as a "spiritual army" combatting so-called "sin, cultural decay, and darkness" by "making disciples" and "raising soldiers." In a video posted by right-wing lobbyists Turning Point UK (TPUK), a section of the group blocked traffic in the middle of the LGBTQ+ street while chanting "Jesus saves" to visibly confused passers by.

However, people like Anya Lacey are part of a new spectrum of tradwives with OnlyFans accounts. That is, conservative housewives who show off their naked bodies on social media and make a lot of money doing so. Does your dad know about your job? You're a Christian but you have OnlyFans! Lacey, who is 19, asserts in a TikTok video that makes it clear she's aware of the contradiction her persona contains. We all have phones, we all have social media.

I've known this really since the first second, but I rarely have vivid dreams, and I did in fact have a very vivid one over the weekend. In fact, last time that I had a super vivid dream, I was pregnant. It tends to happen a lot to women when they're pregnant. Owens claimed that in 2023, it was revealed to her in a dream that her then-producer was pregnant with a baby boy.

as Candace Owens, Tucker [Carlson], etc. spread their Jews control everything' propaganda on the right, it isn't really Qatar that benefits, but China, wrote Erickson in a post on X. The Chinese have stirred the antisemitic pot, adjusted the TikTok algorithm to amplify antisemitism, etc.. All the people on the right suddenly blaming the Jews are not looking at China and the voices spreading the propaganda are silent on China and its influence operations, he added.

The title of Ross Douthat's podcast is characteristically absent of a value judgment. It's called Interesting Times, rather than Foreboding Times, Quixotic Times, or Bleak Times -which is an indication of where he stands. At the tumultuous end of the American Century, Douthat is prepared to hear everyone out. Interesting Times is an interview show. On it, Douthat hosts a slew of rabble-rousers and firebrands from across the political spectrum-think Steve Bannon and Hasan Piker-and peppers them with questions about how they've developed their ideology.

The other day I pondered a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. It was The New York Times of almost exactly one hundred years ago, October 2, 1925. On page 32, the headline: "Big Power System Planned in the South: Three Groups To Ask Right to Develop Tennessee River and Muscle Shoals: World's Largest Plant."

The South African populist, nationalist and anti-immigration group "Operation Dudula" is once more making headlines, having recently launched a campaign targeting migrant children. By arguing that there are not enough school placements for South African children, the overtly xenophobic group has called for the exclusion of migrant children from public schools. Operation Dudula is known for its head-turning publicity stunts. Members of the group have, for instance,blocked access to public hospitals for foreignersin the country, saying they should not use facilities funded by taxpayers' money.

"Hate the sin, love the sinner" is a concept even devout Christians often find challenging. But what if the sin is hate, the sinner is a hater, and your whole redemption-free religion is based on the hatred of hate? What if we are all sinners in the hands of an angry podcaster? This is the deep theological discourse that can be provoked only by the author and essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, who made a joyless noise unto the Lord in the direction of the slain conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.

Hamas responded to President Donald Trump's Gaza proposal in a statement posted to Telegram on Friday, agreeing to negotiate the release of Israeli hostages, alive or dead, and hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to an independent body "based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support".

My brother is almost 90, a Repub for years, and a committed Trumpie from the beginning. He knows he is looking at his sunset and will die a Trumpie. He dismisses, rationalizes, or denies every critical fact about Trump. No fact, no failure, nor any reversal of policy by any court causes him pause. He only watches FOX. He has successfully alienated his wife, two very adult children, siblings, relatives, and friends who are not Trumpies.

In the clip, a transmasculine character with freckles and a cropped blue haircut says, "I'm trans, Norma. And everyone at school knows, and everyone at home knows, and being here, it's like a whole new place. I can just be Barney, and I can choose if and when I tell people. I've never been happier ... Pugsley reminded me how important it is to live your life without apology."

[Bragg's office], they favor criminals over victims," Craven Antao told "Fox & Friends" co-host Ainsley Earhardt, faulting Bragg's office for putting "a simple law school graduate in charge of my case." "They failed to file a certificate of readiness. So, because the evidence was not presented, it timed out within that 90 days," the content creator continued. "I believe it was [on purpose].

That was crazy. Dude, when Tucker Carlson got up at Charlie Kirk's funeral, when they were lowering his coffin into the ground, and he got up on the microphone and said, I'm really sick of these f*cking hukus-eating, hook-nose, money-changing, penny-pitching, Christ-killing Jews that poison the wells in the Middle Ages.' You know, I thought that was overkill, Fuentes began, embellishing Carlon's actual words at the event.

Three years later, the situation has changed completely, and precisely thanks to figures like Bruesewitz. This consultant, barely 27 years old, is an advisor to Donald Trump and was one of the architects of the podcast interview strategy that positioned the current president among young people under 30 during the 2024 election campaign. Between June and October, Trump gave 18 interviews on these platforms, while his rival, Kamala Harris, appeared in only four.